Hi Raghavendra I like your reply and definitely will give it a try. There's nothing I hate mre than wasted infrastructure ... -- TIA Paolo On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 8:13 AM, Raghavendra G <raghavendra.hg at gmail.com>wrote: > Hi Paolo, > > One of the configurations is to have glusterfs as server on each of the > nodes exporting a brick. Each node should also have glusterfs running as > client having unify translator, unifying all the servers. > > regards, > > On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 10:34 PM, Paolo Supino <paolo.supino at gmail.com>wrote: > >> Hi >> I have a small HPC cluster of 36 nodes (1 head, 35 compute). Each of the >> nodes has a 1 65GB (~ 2.2TB combined) volume that isn't being used. I >> thought of using a parallel filesystem in order to put this unused space >> into good use. The configuration I had in mind is: All nodes will act a >> bricks and all nodes will act as clients. I have no experience with Gluster >> and want to know what people on the mailing list thought of the idea, >> deployment scenario, pros and cons etc ... Any reply will help :-) >> >> >> >> -- >> TIA >> Paolo >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Gluster-users mailing list >> Gluster-users at gluster.org >> http://zresearch.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users >> >> > > > -- > Raghavendra G > > A centipede was happy quite, until a toad in fun, > Said, "Prey, which leg comes after which?", > This raised his doubts to such a pitch, > He fell flat into the ditch, > Not knowing how to run. > -Anonymous > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://zresearch.com/pipermail/gluster-users/attachments/20080917/569e6b99/attachment.htm